Feathers on top of the head bristly.
Feet very strange: they stick out far behind, because Grebes have no tail to be seen, and the toes are different from those of any other bird you have in your tables, being scalloped with flaps of skin instead of webbed like those of most Swimming Birds.
A Citizen of North America, whose nest is a wet bed of broken-down reeds, sometimes floating on the water of the marsh.

He can dive and swim under water as well as a Loon.

If you could catch one alive, he would make his flapper-like feet go so fast you could not see anything of them but a hazy film, as the Hummingbird does his wings when he poises in front of a flower.
[Illustration: Pied-Billed Grebe.].